This is an analysis of Lyrics Of Love And Sorrow by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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Love is the light of the world, my dear,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a Bcda BcXc Bede X faga faha X iede ijfj X hhddiikk a XifiegjXhlal hidiXXhX
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,1,8,1,12,8,
- Metre: 1 100100111 10101010 011110111 1101001 100100111 11101010 0101111010 11101110 100100111 01101010 1011100111 10111010 1 01110101 010101 11110011 110101 11011101 110101 11010001 0100101 1 0110101 1011 1111101 1101 0110101 1101 1101101 1011 1 111111 111001 1100101 111001 1111101 1111101 11100111 100101001 1 11101010 1100111 1010100111 11000101 11111010 0110111 011100101 11101111 11101011 110101 110011111 101111 11111110 111111 101100111 100101 111110010 1101111 1011111111 0101111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 65
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, that
Anaphora
and
